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Alta Wind Energy Center
35.021111°,-118.320556° - Maxar Technologies
Located in the Tehachapi Mountains of California, the Alta Wind Energy Center is the largest wind farm in the US, and third largest onshore farm in the world. The facility plans to reduce carbon dioxide emission by more then 5.2 million metric tons over the next 25 years, which is roughly the same as eliminating 446,000 cars off the road.
Evaporation ponds
40.792726°,-112.592892° - Maxar Technologies
Evaporation ponds in the Great Salt Lake, Utah are pictured in this Overview. The Great Salt Lake contributes an estimated $1.3 billion annually to Utah’s economy, including $1.1 billion from industry, which is mostly due to mineral extraction. Minerals extracted from the lake include sodium chloride, potassium sulfate, and magnesium-chloride.
L.F. Wade International Airport (BDA)
32.368277°,-64.685628° - Maxar Technologies
L.F. Wade International Airport is the only airport in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. Due to the island's substantial distance from the nearest land mass, the airport only handles jets and long-range turboprops. The facility accommodates roughly one million passengers every year.
Caiji Co
31.205285°,85.434498° - Maxar Technologies
Pictured here is Caiji Co, a body of water in the Ngari Prefecture of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. At one point Ngari was the heart of the ancient kingdom of Guge, and later along with Ü and Tsang, composed Ü-Tsang, one of the traditional provinces of Tibet.
Villarrica
-39.423184°,-71.939279° - Maxar Technologies
Villarrica, a volcano in the Chilean Central Valley, is one of the few volcanoes in the world with a lava lake in its crater. Rising 2,860 m (9,380 ft), Villarrica covers an area of 400 square kilometers. The volcano’s most recent serious eruption was in 2015, which caused the evacuation of thousands of people in nearby communities.
Glacier melt
63.806677°,-17.543741° - Maxar Technologies
Hundreds of tiny streams caused by glacier melt, merge together in the southern region of Iceland to form an outlet into the North Atlantic Ocean. Rising lava, steam vents, or newly opened hot springs can all cause this rapid ice melt, leading to a sizable release of water that picks up sediment as it flows down from the glaciers.
Sheep's Meadow
40.770784°,-73.977618° - Maxar Technologies
Sheep Meadow covers 15 acres on the west side of Central Park in New York. As seen in this Overview, the meadow often draw massive crowds of sunbathers looking for a place to lay out, and can attract up to over 30,000 visitors a day in the summer months.
Nusa Penida
-8.752065°,115.473136° - Maxar Technologies
Two secluded beaches are seen on the island of Nusa Penida, located off the southeastern coast of Bali. The island has come to be the unofficial bird sanctuary for numbers of endangered Balinese and Indonesian bird species, most notably the Bali Starlin.
Uummannaq Fjord
70.676582°,-52.097400° - Maxar Technologies
Ice melt in the Uummannaq Fjord in Greenland is seen in this Overview. The edges of Greenland’s ice sheet melt every summer; however, because the sheet is steepest at the edge, and flatter towards the middle, the warming of summer exposes a larger area of ice to melting every year. This particular Fjord is the second largest in eastern Greenland behind the Kangertittivaq Fjord.
Iron Ore Mine Tailings Pond
46.407676°,-87.530954° - Maxar Technologies
Tailings are the waste and by-products generated by mining operations. The tailings seen here were pumped into the Gribbens Basin, next to the Empire and Tilden Iron Ore Mines in Negaunee, Michigan, USA. Once the materials are pumped into the pond, they are mixed with water to create a sloppy form of mud known as slurry. The slurry is then pumped through magnetic separation chambers to extract usable ore and increase the mine’s total output. For a sense of scale, this Overview shows approximately 2.5 square kilometers (1 square mile) of the basin.
Harris Cattle Ranch
36.305402°,-120.258655° - Maxar Technologies
Harris Cattle Ranch is located in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Spanning 800 acres with a a cattle population of over 100,000, the facility produces 150 million pounds of beef per year, making it the largest beef producer on the West Coast of the United States.
Lava Field
38.968922°,-112.472327° - Maxar Technologies
Pivot irrigation fields surround a lava field known as The Cinders, in Millard County, Utah. Along with farming, one of the elements of Millard County's economy is fossil digging as Trilobite fossils are relatively common in the region west of Delta.
Kuşadası
37.859722°,27.259722° - Maxar Technologies
Kuşadası is a resort town located on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. While the town has roughly 64,00 residents for most of year, in the summer months its population can rise to nearly half a million people with the influx of tourists.
Munsu Water Park
39.039177°,125.780009° - Maxar Technologies
Munsu Water Park is located in Pyongyang, North Korea. The facility is open year-round with water slides, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, various sport courts, and a rock climbing wall.
Houston Abandoned Cars
29.786157°,-94.878034° - Nearmap
Hundreds of abandoned cars that were damaged by Hurricane Harvey are seen at the Royal Purple Raceway in Houston, Texas, USA. It is estimated that 30,000 now fill the lot and more than a half a million cars were damaged by the storm’s floodwaters. The cars will remain here until insurance adjusters assess the damage and process claims for each vehicle.
Shanghai Interchange
31.118920°,121.388230° - Maxar Technologies
A highway interchange connects three major roads - the S20, G60, and S4 - in Shanghai, China. The city is home to roughly 2.5 million cars and 24 million people.
Ventura Fire
34.275000°,-119.227778° - NASA
Wildfires, visible at center, burn in Ventura, California. Numerous blazes have already destroyed hundreds of homes and thousands of residents have fled the surrounding areas. The largest fire has expanded to cover an area roughly the size as the city of Orlando. To be very clear, the two white streaks seen here at left are cloud cover, not fires.
Tampa International Airport (TPA)
27.975906°,-82.534138° - Nearmap
Designed in the 1960’s, Tampa International Airport's Landside/Airside design was the first of its type in the world. In this layout, baggage and ticketing functions take place in a central "Landside Terminal” which is surrounded by four “Airside” satellite terminals where planes embark and disembark.
Port of Hamburg
53.532581°,9.916544° - Maxar Technologies
The Port of Hamburg - known as Germany’s “Gateway to the World” - is located on the Elbe River in Hamburg. On an average day, the facility is accessed by 28 ships, 200 freight trains, and 5,000 trucks. In total, the port moves 132.3 million tonnes of cargo each year - that’s roughly 1/3 of the mass of all living human beings.
Het Loo Palace
52.234167°,5.945833° - Maxar Technologies
Het Loo Palace is located in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. “The Great Garden,” situated behind the residence, follows the general Baroque landscape design formula: perfect symmetry, axial layout with radiating gravel walks, parterres with fountains, basins, and statues.
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